Humanities Without Walls National Predoctoral Career Diversity Residential Summer Workshop
HUMANITIES WITHOUT WALLS NATIONAL PREDOCTORAL CAREER DIVERSITY RESIDENTIAL SUMMER WORKSHOP: In summer 2019, Humanities without Walls (HWW) is holding its second national, in-residence summer workshop for doctoral students interested in learning about careers outside the academy or the tenure-track system. Doctoral students pursuing degrees in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to apply for this three-week workshop that will be held in Chicago from 15 July 2019 to 2 August 2019. This is a limited-submission application. Eligible doctoral students must be nominated for this fellowship by their home institutions, and only one nomination may be made to HWW by each university.
All applicants must be enrolled in a doctoral degree program in a humanities or humanistic social science discipline at a PhD-granting institution within the United States. Applicants may be at any stage of their doctoral work, but they cannot have already received the doctoral degree at the time the workshop takes place. Ideally, applicants will have completed some coursework toward their doctoral degree, and they may have been advanced to candidacy but are not yet finishing their dissertations. International students are eligible to apply but are responsible for confirming their registration and eligibility status at their home universities; HWW is not responsible for issuing visa paperwork.
Each fellow will receive a $5,000 prize intended to cover travel to and from the summer workshop, most meals, and all incidentals. Fellows will be expected to arrange and pay for their own travel using the funds from this prize. The Chicago Humanities Festival will be arranging housing for all fellows in Chicago near the Gratz Center. All fellows are expected to attend the entire workshop for the entire three weeks and to stay in the provided housing.
Interested doctoral students in the humanities should submit their applications to their home universities’ humanities center director, graduate college dean, or equivalent by 30 September 2018. For more information about application guidelines, visit http://www.humanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.edu/initiatives/pre-doctoral/pre-doctoral-cfa.html.
Humanities Center Directors, Graduate College Deans, or equivalents should submit the application for their nominee by 5:00 p.m. CDT on 2 November 2018. Applications should be submitted to HWW-Manager@illinois.edu as a single PDF file attached to an e-mail with the subject line “2019 Predoc Application.” Announcement of fellowship awards will be made in January 2019. All questions should be directed to Jason Mierek, Director of Operations of the HWW Consortium, at HWW-manager@illinois.edu.